Museo Navarini è una raccolta unica e straordinaria di circa tremila manufatti in rame, dal millecinquecento al secondo dopoguerra, esposti in un percorso museale che è storia di un metallo ma prima ancora storia umana, tra quotidianità e sfarzi, tra ingegno e maestria artigianale.
Once, the sixteen-century stone vaults were a shed for cattle, later on buried by the fury of the stream Gola. Nowadays there is a suggestive atmosphere, where copper objects recall the echoes and noises of ancient handcraft shops. The varnished reflections and the warmth of this red metal bring back images of craftsmen from the past, working with it.
The extraordinary richness and heterogeneity of the proposed items is what characterize this Collection. It is the biggest ‘temple’ for copper in the world.
The wine shop keeper’s hall is the most striking.
The ancient emblem of a wine shop keeper shades different corners of the hall, all closely related to the magic of history. It is a sly faced figure, with inferior horn limbs, a lantern and some keys in its hands.
A peculiar collection of pewter articles peeks from an ancient wooden cupboard, while a very elegant bronze collection is displayed on an antique box from Fassa. A 18th Century press, displaying ladles, kitchenware and other curios copper items, takes your complete attention, thanks to its majesty and peculiar features.
Basins, buckets, big roasting trays, flasks, ladles, funnels and extraordinary pudding shapes decorate the walls. Imposing water containers, tubs and embossed chiseled containers, all made in copper, stand on the floor.
Exceptionably charming are a 16th Century water container, which was used for the maceration of medical herbs and was found in a monastery in Tuscany, and a basin from the same century embossed with a dolphin. Other curios objects are the tools used to prepare decorated holy hosts for religious festivities.
Coppersmiths’ talent and imagination shows no boundaries and limits.
From Monday to Friday
8.30 - 12.30 | 14.00 - 19.00.
Saturday and Sunday by appointment only.
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...Years of work, hardly any resting moment, are now a source of incredible satisfaction. Today, the shop’s cattle-shed and cellar, cleaned from mud and debris, are the Museum. It is the biggest copper museum around and the result of a lifetime of passion and sacrifice...